VacationSelector

London or Warsaw?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LondonWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. London and Warsaw are level on 0.
LondonWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4726
Coast distance43 km238 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. London leads by 16 points.16
LondonWarsaw
Score8872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3171,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4034
Museums & heritage. London leads by 9 points.9
LondonWarsaw
Score7263
Museums within 10 km148107
Museums within 2 km of centre4960
Share of museums within 2 km %3356
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 33 points.33
LondonWarsaw
Score9562
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3271,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4664
Nightclubs within 4 km312104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
LondonWarsaw
Score4055
Protected land share 50 km %1627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1419
Land share of disc %97100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 5 points.5
LondonWarsaw
Score7570
Tourist attractions within 2 km8542
Park area within 2 km84 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. London leads by 13 points.13
LondonWarsaw
Score8976
Notable places within 2 km649299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 25 points.25
LondonWarsaw
Score5479
Price level global84.949
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. London leads by 4 points.4
LondonWarsaw
Score6359
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months16
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonWarsaw
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 20 m
€66-100
LGW · 40 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New DelhiDEL
8 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CancunCUN
10 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureLondonWarsaw
Official languageEnglishPolish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m118 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonWarsaw
City population8,799,7281,862,402
People per km²5,5983,601
Museums within 10 km215117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre11676

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.